Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — GOES TO DIXIE LAND. [ARTICLE]

GOES TO DIXIE LAND.

PRESIDENT MAKES A SOUTHERN TOUR. ' .s> Keeping Promise Given More Than a Year Ago, Roosevelt Takes a Trip South—Has Now Visited JJvery State in the Union. In accordance with a promise given more than a year ago, President Roosevelt started Wednesday on an extended trip through the States of the South, intending to visit all of the Atlantic coast States, Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana. On the completion of his trip he will have visited during his administration as President every State in the Union. After tentative arrangements for the trip had been completed, the epidemic of yellow fever broke out in New Orleans, one of the principal points of the President's itinerary. He was urged by many of his friends that he ought not to” visit New Orleans at the time scheduled, lest he be exposed To officials of New Orleans the President suggested that, if they preferred, he would postpone his visit to that city until a later date, Assurances were given him, however, by Mayor Behrman and by officials of the marine hospital service that at the time of his proposed visit to New Orleans danger from fever infection practically would be out of consideration. President Roosevelt left Washington over the Southern Railway. In his party were Secretary William Loeb, Jr., Dr. P. M. Rixey, surgeon general of the navy; John A. Mellhenney of Louisiana, a member of the President’s regiment of rough riders; John C. Greenway of Michigan; John S. Elliott, commissioner of the interior for Porto Rico; M. C. Latta and John L. McGrew, stenographers; Henry A. Strohmeyer, photographer; Colonel L. S Brown, general agent of the Southern Railway; representatives of the three press associations, two secret service officers and a corps of messengers.

Speaks at Richmond. At Richmond the President made an address in Capitol Square and was entertained at luncheon by the citizens and taken for a drive to points of interest in the city. In his speech the President said in part: I trust I need hardly say how great is my pleasure at speaking in this historic capital of your historic State; the State than which no other has contributed a larger proportion to the leadership of the nation; for on the honor roll of those American worthies whose greatness is not only for the age, but for all time, not only for one nation, but for .all the world, on this honor roll Virginia’s name stands above all others. And in greeting all of you, I know that no one will grudge my saying a special word of acknowledgment to the veterans of the Civil War. A man would indeed be but a poor American who could without a thrill witness the way in which, in city after city in the North as in the South, on every public occasion, the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray now march and stand shoulder to shoulder. h This gives tangible proof that we are all now in fact as well as in name a reunited people, a people infinitely richer because of the priceless memories left to all Americans by you men who fought in the great war. Many and great problems lie before us. We of this nation enjoy extraordinary privileges, and as our opportunity is great, therefore our responsibility is great. In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that, whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not. We have to play it; all we can decide is whether we shall play it well or ill. Our mission in the world should be one of peace, but not the peace of cravens, the peace granted contemptuously to those who purchase it by surrendering the right. In particular we must remember that in undertaking to build the Panama canal we have necessarily undertaken to police the seas at either end of it; and this means that we have a peculiar interest in the preservation of order in the coasts and islands of the Caribbean. The extraordinary growth of industrialism during the last half century brings every civilized people face to face with the gravest social and economic questions. This is an age of combination among capitalists and combination among wage workers. It is idle to try to prevent such combinations. Our efforts should be to see that they work for the good and not for the harm of the body politic. Many republics have risen in the past, and some of them flourished long, but sooner or later they fell; and the cause most potent in bringing about their fall was in almost all cases the fact that they grew to be governments in the interest of a class instead of governments in the interest of all. It was ultimately as fatal to the cause of freedom whether it was the rich who oppressed the poor or the poor who plundered the rich. The crime of brutal disregard of rights of others is as much a crime when it manifests itself in the shape of greed and brutal arrogance on the one side, as when it manifests itself in the shape of envy and lawless violence on the other.

Our aim must bo to deal justice to each man; no more and no less. * • * More than this no man is entitled to, and less than this no man shall have. The idea of restoring St. Savior's church, Southwark, England, as a memorial to John Harvard probably will be carried out within a few months. Of the SIO,OOO required $9,000 has already been secured by subscriptions from Americans resident in London and visiting Americans. Benjamin Monnett, member at large of the City Council of Columbus, Ohio, tendered his resignation in a communication in which he deplores the charges of “graft” and "boodle” that have been mads against Aldermen.